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relaxlu

July Transparency Report

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Everyone is on vacation or is enjoying the summer so this month's transparency report is a bit late and short. The only news we have is that we've added u/ispyscreenshots, a bot that detects and removes screenshots/pics with added text. We've also welcomed back an old mod, u/tizorres.

 

Here are the numbers for July (as always excluding all bot actions):

 

JulyDataDifference to last monthComments
Total Moderation Actions26,058+1,417reddit started counting a few new categories like "create awards"
Submission Removals (includes spam)4.321-4,806back to the average
Comment Removals (includes spam)6,495-7,370back to the average
Posts Approved3,429+424about the same
Comments Approved3,200+838about the same
Bans (perma&temp)2,055-195about the same
Unbans265+104the summer makes us lenient
Reports Ignored1,997+808please keep reporting
Posts Locked10+2self-hurt/2x uncivil/underage creepiness/disturbing content/doxing/vaccine bs/trolling/2x temp lock
Users muted114-32about the same
Admin actions9+5 (12 less than t_d)6x advocating death/2x pedo stuff/1x DMCA

Posted Aug 7, 2019, 10:38 AM UTC · edited · locked

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brycethejedi•

I can't wait until next month's transparency report when you explain why a picture of Chinese military vehicles entering Hong Kong was repeatedly removed.

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smrt_ceo•

Apparently some of the mods here are pro-china or sth

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imjustaviewer•

Why was the Tiananmen Square post with 131k upvotes removed?

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Mininni•

The fact that this was removed is extremely fucked up.

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RazsterOxzine•

Wonder who you are and why you shilled out so easily?

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How many political posts are going to be bot voted to the front page where all the top comments are ripping it for obvious propaganda?

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But this isn't r/politics and it seems every day there's some political shit on the front page. Can't you guys work to reduce it a bit?

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relaxluOP•

r/politics doesn't allow pictures, we do. We already have a way to reduce it for you to zero. We do that by flairing them. You can use that flair to filter them out. It works both on desktop and with most apps.

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TownIdiot25•

Every month you guys go on about how "more people love politics than don't". And every transparency post has tons of heavily upvoted comments telling you how much they hate the political posts. Could you guys at least do a straw poll for 1 measly week to see what people ACTUALLY think about political posts? That way theres no accusations of bot-vote manipulation, and everyone can agree on the result of the poll even if it isn't what they wanted.

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Dormant123•

This doesnt account for all the people with no reddit account that browse your default sub that see this shit. We dont want it filtered we want it gone. Failure to do so is admittance of compliance with whatever political organization that's pushing this shit.

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pwn3dbyth3n00b•

I will start r/politicialpics just so that politics can be removed from this sub.

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Resident_Brit•

Hey I've got an actual suggestion, maybe you could create an r/politicalpics or something and whenever someone flairs a picture with "politics" or whatever then the post is automatically removed and the automod tells them to try the politicalpics sub. People would find it strange with the flair being useless but it would make them go there when they otherwise wouldn't read a rule that says to go there

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IAmAshamanAMA•

You are complicit.

Fuck the mods

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CLSosa•

Does it work with the official app because that’s really all that matters. Obviously there is something deeper going on here because you’re defending the political posts.

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IAmAshamanAMA•

Please ban politics.

This whole sub is going to shit because you won't.

This sub should be for interesting pictures

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CrimsonChrono5•

Everyone here knows this response is just a stupid PR spin. Everyone. Stop playing coy and just ban them. You're fooling no one.

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Leftiealex•

I feel like trump tried the same general excuse for something...

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jibjaba4•

Checks post history... It so obvious you guys brigade /new and then get buthurt because you can't downvote all the anti-trump/anti-alt-right/anti-republican posts.

I agree that you span the threads with propaganda comments though.

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7Jayme•

The mods of this subreddit are past the point of reason. They will allow any rule breaking or obvious bot voting as long as the post fits their political opinion. If the post has a different political opinion than the mods, they'll find a frivolous reason to remove it promptly before too many see it.

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appetizerbread•

I’ve heard rumors that Chinese bots are spamming reports/downvoting anything regarding the situation between China & Hong Kong (specifically Chinese troops being moved to the border). Do you have any idea if this is a problem on this subreddit? And if it is, how do you plan to combat it?

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relaxluOP•

I'm sure both sides are vote manipulating but that's not a mod issue. We don't have the tools to detect or combat that. It's an admin issue.

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Mininni•

"Let me just remove a trending post that actually informs people because the image is widely available.. nothing to see here.."

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CutTheShitHombre•

When are you going to ban all the facebook style sympathy posts that have become the new "progress picture" posts? Also even though trash tag is good it honestly doesn't serve a purpose here at all.

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relaxluOPMOD•

One thing to keep in mind is that all of our content is crowd-sourced. We don't have a staff of photographers on payroll to fly to exotic places, so we necessarily rely on community contribution.

Sometimes those contributions are going to be more personal than others, and sometimes the community at large is going to choose those more personal posts to upvote over something else.

That's just the nature of the voting system. If this is unacceptable to you, then you may be better off by simply unsubscribing.

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CutTheShitHombre•

Then why did you guys remove progress pictures then from this sub if you need crowd sourced material?

Edit: Even if you removed the facebook esque posts do you really think that that will be the downfall of this sub cause it has no content besides that? I believe that's poor moderation and laziness.

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relaxluOP•

Our main concern with progress pics was the mental well being of the posters.

We don't plan on banning any more content. Don't like it then downvote it and move on with your life.

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This attitude will ruin the sub. You should care about the quality of the sub you run.

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NeverTopComment•

Are you seriously still sticking to this after the carpet post and the amount of upvotes it got?

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CutTheShitHombre•

Can you explain what you mean when you say that. Because if it's just over them receiving mean comments then you would have no choice but to also protect the sympathy posts which already break rule 4 because they for sure receive a lot of mean and hateful comments.

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ItsAlwaysSegsFault•

then you may be better off by simply unsubscribing.

Done

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conman577•

Sorry you hate people's joy.

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pm_me_your_smth•

If I wanted to do that then I'd go, I don't know, to facebook maybe? Because seeing such pics from the lives of people that you actually know is more interesting and meaningful to you? Not some random people you never heard of, about things that hundrends/thousands of people do regularly anyway.

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conman577•

I'd rather see a variety of things, including things related to the human condition, over the same repeat shots of a fucking waterfall. Again, sorry you can't find joy.

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CinnamonDolceLatte•

And predictable pics of garbage is repeatitve too.

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LtGaymer69•

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ct6plr/this_picture_is_quite_hard_to_find_so_i_thought/exk5spe/

Can you explain how you guys think this post "doesn't convey accurate information"?

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relaxluOP•

It's not hard to find. It's all over the internet.

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LtGaymer69•

That is true lol

Thanks

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Odin343•

This is not r/politics, it has come to the point where all someone has to do is post a sign saying how much they hate trump, America, Republicans... and it’s off to the front page!

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langis_on•

Probably because a majority of reddit (and America) hates Trump.

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AndyJack86•

Got an empirical data source for that claim? Else you're just spewing garbage like T_D and the Magaholics.

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langis_on•
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Imagine using gallup as a source of approval ratings.

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It's a political hate sub.

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You sound like a Donald troll.

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ObamasBalanitis•

Garbage propaganda sub

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MrBuffaloSauce•

+5 (12 less than t_d)

Interesting bar to set for yourself.

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Chionger•

It’s because this mod is being told by his overlords to take it down. 0 justification for it either. And when you ask the mod just stonewalls you.

Hey mod you couldn’t be any more transparent. Enjoying that dirty CCP money aren’t you?

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relaxluOPMOD•

Don't let the facts (or the top posts of the month/week) get in the way of your narrative:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cp4sce/democracy_now/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cpsdwd/protestor_in_hong_kong_today/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cp9tiy/hong_kong_protesters_occupy_the_airport_all/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cpb3hr/protesters_called_for_mass_sitin_at_the_airport

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cphqlo/hong_kong_protesters_we_are_fighting_for_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cjtemy/hong_kong_police_brought_out_shot_gun_and_aimed/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cpc4ag/a_young_hong_kong_couple_share_a_moment_after/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cmherp/patriotic_hong_kong_protestor/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cj3uar/an_elderly_woman_during_yesterdays_yuen_long/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cpri9c/free_hong_kong_democracy_now/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cju503/hong_kong_police_attempted_to_use_real_gun_on/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cpq4yv/protesters_have_handed_out_boarding_passes_that/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/coytv0/thousands_of_hong_kong_mothers_protest_for_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/coytv0/thousands_of_hong_kong_mothers_protest_for_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cn6qus/yesterday_in_hong_kong_a_teenager_was_arrested/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cmqdl5/citizens_of_hong_kong_flying_american_flags_in/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cja0hz/expired_tear_gases_were_used_by_the_hong_kong/

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KKlear•

That doesn't answer the question.

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ouch-hangover•

Hi, look 2020 is coming up and we're getting a lot of political HATE spam on pics.

This is a sub where people are meant to enjoy pictures for what they are.

If you don't act, this will become some kind of tribal political battle ground.

I'm not saying take a side, I'm saying become Switzerland, stay Neutral, and stop this place being flushed down the drain by paid political groups and barrages from the hateful insane .

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DGSmith2•

If you want curated and high-quality pics I'd recommend r/itookapicture

An actual quote from a mod of this sub regarding political/ sympathy posts.

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Dollface_Killah•

Calling a public figure ugly is hardly all-caps level hate.

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SeudonymousKhan•

Why don't you just filter those posts out if you don't like them?

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langis_on•

Because it's a a brigade from r/the_Donald and their pissed someone is talking bad about them.

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jibjaba4•

This is the answer, they brigade /new constantly then cry because most of reddit is happy to upvote the Trump bashing posts.

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Imagine not being able to differentiate between “their” and “they’re”.

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langis_on•

Oh fuck you. Sorry! I used the wrong one. Whoops, I guess my argument is completely invalid.

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SeudonymousKhan•

And?..

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langis_on•

And they aren't here for answers, their here to enforce their will on others. They are just salty that people dislike Trump so much that they upvote stuff here that bad mouths him.

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RadicalBeam•

Any chance we could lower the character limit of titles on this sub? It might stop the excessive written storytelling aspects on a sub dedicated to visual storytelling.

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SirHarry•

walter

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not_barbies_bf•

Its winter on half of the globe

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kpek33•

Cool

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shocktop8•

For s?55

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